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    This document summarizes immigration and urbanization trends in the United States during the late 19th century. It notes that large numbers of German and Irish immigrants arrived during the 1870s and settled primarily in cities, causing native-born Americans to feel threatened. It also discusses push/pull factors that drove immigration, the immigrant experience including travel conditions and processing at Ellis Island, and how immigrants helped build the railroads and factories that contributed to America's growth as a world power. The document further outlines the rapid urbanization and rise of cities during this time period, with overcrowding, poverty, and poor living conditions in urban tenement housing.

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    This document summarizes immigration and urbanization trends in the United States during the late 19th century. It notes that large numbers of German and Irish immigrants arrived during the 1870s and settled primarily in cities, causing native-born Americans to feel threatened. It also discusses push/pull factors that drove immigration, the immigrant experience including travel conditions and processing at Ellis Island, and how immigrants helped build the railroads and factories that contributed to America's growth as a world power. The document further outlines the rapid urbanization and rise of cities during this time period, with overcrowding, poverty, and poor living conditions in urban tenement housing.

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    This document summarizes immigration and urbanization trends in the United States during the late 19th century. It notes that large numbers of German and Irish immigrants arrived during the 1870s and settled primarily in cities, causing native-born Americans to feel threatened. It also discusses push/pull factors that drove immigration, the immigrant experience including travel conditions and processing at Ellis Island, and how immigrants helped build the railroads and factories that contributed to America's growth as a world power. The document further outlines the rapid urbanization and rise of cities during this time period, with overcrowding, poverty, and poor living conditions in urban tenement housing.

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    Chapter 5: Immigration and Urbanization

    A. New Immigrants: Germans and Irish 1870’s


    a. unskilled and poor, catholic or Jewish
    b. settled in cities
    c. native born Americans felt threatened
    B. Push Pull Factors
    a. Push: religious reasons, farming
    b. Pull: 1862 Homestead Act, recruit to build railroad, chain
    immigrants, political and religious freedom
    C. Immigrant Experience
    a. steerage
    b. illness
    c. 1892 Ellis island: steerage
    d. 1910 Angel Island
    e. settlements in cities: four out of five in New York city were
    immigrants in 1890
    f. Americanization programs, PNA and AOH
    g. “Melting pot,” Asian discrimination
    h. Nativism
    D. Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
    E. Immigrants change America
    a. Built railroads, worked in factories, help America become a world
    power
    F. Urbanization
    a. 15 million Americans living in cities
    b. job attractions, more promise and opportunities, farm to city
    movement, factory work paid in cash
    c. technology grows, skyscrapers, Elisha Otis (Safety elevator)
    d. Mass Transit- electric cars, cable cars, subway systems: Boston 1897,
    New York 1904
    e. Suburbs develop for middle and upper classes to escape the noise and
    dirt
    f. City planners: parks and rec, Fredrick Law Olmsted
    G. Urban Living
    a. Overcrowding and poverty
    b. Tenements: unhealthy and dangerous
    c. Unpaved streets, littered, dead horses, waste,
    d. Professional firefighting teams
    H. Social and Culture
    a. Mark Twain: The Gilded Age
    b. Conspicuous consumerism
    c. Department stores and advertising: John Wanamaker
    d. Higher standards of living: mass culture
    e. Public education: liberal arts
    f. Leisure, Coney island, buffalo bills wild west show, moving pictures,
    vaudeville, baseball, horse racing

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